The White Rose: The Story of Sophie Scholl

Based on a true story, The White Rose recounts the final days of Sophie Scholl, a 21-year-old student who led the only major act of German civil disobedience during the Second World War - at the Jack Studio Theatre from 17 July.

Image: Jack Studio Theatre

Written and directed by Ross McGregor and presented by Arrows & Traps Theatre, The White Rose recounts the final days of Sophie Scholl, a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.

The show plays at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre from 17 July to 4 August.

Born in 1921, Sophie Scholl was a skilled artist, and a shaping factor in her political outlook was her friendship with so-called 'degenerate' modern artists whose work didn't exalt the "blood and soil" values of militaristic Germany.

Ms Scholl enrolled at the University of Munich in 1942, where her brother Hans was studying medicine, and started socialising with a group drawn together by their love of art, literature and music.

Found to have been distributing anti-war leaflets at Munich, she was convicted of high treason and executed by guillotine on 22 February 1943.

Ross McGregor trained at Warwick University, and UEA.

He is the Artistic Director of Arrows & Traps Theatre and directed their productions of Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter's Tale (Lion & Unicorn), Taming Of The Shrew, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth (New Wimbledon Studio) Three Sisters, Anna Karenina, Crime & Punishment, The Gospel According to Philip, Frankenstein (Brockley Jack Studio), and Twelfth Night & Othello (Upstairs At The Gatehouse).